Silence and Subject in Modern Literature: Spoken Violence

Author:   U. Olsson
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2013
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9781349468645


Pages:   215
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Silence and Subject in Modern Literature: Spoken Violence


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Why does interrogation silence its object and not make it speak? Silence vs speech is a central issue in classical and modern literary works. This book studies literary representations of the power relations in which we are forced to speak using a range of texts ranging from the modern crime novel, via classics, to avant-garde plays.

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Author:   U. Olsson
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2013
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9781349468645


ISBN 10:   1349468649
Pages:   215
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Cordelia's Silence, Spoken Violence 1. The Exemplary Becomes Problematic, or Gendered Silence: Jane Austen 2. The Secrets of Silence: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter , Musil's Tonka 3. Refusal, or The Mute Provocateurs: Bartleby Meets Yvonne 4. The Other of Monologue: Strindberg, Camus, Beckett 5. Interrogation, or Forced to Silence: Rankin, Harris, Pinter, Duras 6. Literature as Coerced Speech: Peter Handke's Kaspar 7. Epilogue: The Silence of the Sirens 8. Bibliography  Index

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Ulf Olsson is Professor of Comparative Literature, teaches at Stockholm University, Sweden and has also taught at University of California, Berkeley, USA and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He has published books on Strindberg, and on contemporary Swedish literature, as well as on improvised music. Olsson also works as a literary critic.

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